Comando Con Venezuela denounces massive attacks (more than 44 million) against the website “Resultados con Vzla,” which published the election results from June 28
Comando Con Venezuela reported that it had mitigated more than 44 million attacks in 24 hours against resultadosconvzla.com while receiving more than 32 million requests. Several media outlets have reported on the claim. Separately, VE sin Filtro documented the blocking of the site by Venezuelan providers via DNS/HTTP(S).
Impact details
The victim reported that it had mitigated more than 44 million attacks and kept the site online; a block by an Internet service provider (ISP) affected accessibility within Venezuela.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Availability
- Subtype
- Distributed denial of service
- Confidence
- High
Public sources confirm the impact on the availability of Reclamo; no data breach has been confirmed.
Severity assessment
High- Functional impact
- Minimal
- Information impact
- None
- Affected scope
- National
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Significant
- Recoverability
- Supplemented
This incident affects only availability and accessibility; no data breach has been confirmed.
Timeline
María Corina Machado / Comando Con Venezuela launches the website resultadosconvzla.com, featuring digitized election results (more than 81% of the results) from June 28.
VE sin Filtro and other media outlets report that Venezuelan internet service providers (CANTV, Movistar, Digitel, Inter, NetUno, etc.) are blocking access to resultadosconvzla.com and other websites containing election results.
During the OAS session on Venezuela, Comando Con Venezuela reported that it had mitigated more than 44 million attacks in 24 hours and recorded more than 32 million visits, stating that they were unable to take down the site.
Media outlets (La República, eldiario.com, Panamericana) report on the command’s claim regarding more than 44 million attacks.